The MORTON PARSONS MERCANTILE CO INCORPORATED
(I will take a photo of the letter – as the heading is really eye
catching)
Osborne,
Kans. May 2 1901
Mr. &
Mrs. S.E. White,
My Dear
Friends,
Your brief
note of yesterday just received. I was surprised and shocked to learn of your
daughter’s death not having heard of her illness. On examing the Farmer I find
urention made of her illness presumably lock jaw. It is so sudden and so
unepected that it scarely seems as if it can be true. The thought comes to me
again in as this time, as it has so many times in the past. How will I feel
when death again enters my family. As it surely will sooner or later, and how
will I feel when I fully realize that my own days are numbered. Of course as
you know I have stood by the open grave of war ones a number of times in the
past but it seems as though it makes me sadder and sadder as I get older. I
have a strong hope that there is a brighter life for you and that you and I and
our dear ones will share it.
“Alas for him
who never sees
The light
shines through the
Cypress tries.”
I wish to
assure you of my heartfelt sympathy at this time but I know how poor a
consolation words are when death has claimed a dear one. – I will write aga
soon. Your friend sincerely, John Morton
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